Absence and Atypical Absence Seizures - LGS Foundation

Casey had a seizure yesterday that lasted over 5 minutes and I didn’t even know it until I see a heart rate spike in his Cardiogram app today. I was across the room from him (you can see me rocking in the reflection of a picture on the wall past him) and never knew it happened. Thankfully these don’t cause the postictal Todd’s paralysis but that means there was nothing to indicate to me that it had happened. An absence seizure is a staring spell, lasting less than a minute, that is usually notic

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